Bush leads by 16 points! - NPR

[sally343434]

A report on NPR announced it this way:

Bush leads in polls by 16 points...
... (pause) among rural voters in swing states.

The reporter then went on to say Kerry could still overcome this deficit by adopting positions more in tune with these voters' "conservative social positions."

Disgusting.

[derby378]

1. This is news?

Bush tends to do better among rural voters overall.

[bif]

2. NPR=Network Promoting Republicans?

Their bias has clearly become Republican over the last year or so.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. I'm sure all 5 rural voters hate Kerry.

And I'm somehow okay with that.

[MrBenchley]

8. You know, if the "most liberal Senator in history" is only 16 points down

among the most conservative and moss-bound bunch in Christendom....Chimpy cannot be doing well AT ALL.

[XNASA]

4. I wouldn't mind if all large media outlets report that w* is ahead..

Then maybe more Repub voters will stay home and more Dems will vote.

Polls, schmoles.

[WI_DEM]

5. that's the Zogby report which also says that Bush is running 7-points

below what he did in 2000. If they are interpeting it this way then they are definitely trying to help Bush.

[MrBenchley]

6. And he's the next Churchill....

whose fiery eloquence serves as the rallying point for the grand coalition of nations against terra....

(snicker)

"The reporter then went on to say Kerry could still overcome this deficit by adopting positions more in tune with these voters' "conservative social positions."
Because right now that "flip-flopper" meme is dead as heston's brain, and the GOP's got nothing else...

[xchrom]

7. those are voters who hate

certain portions of the american population.
there is no winning them for the dems -- or WHATEVER the party might be that would be liberal.
these are backward, superstious folk -- that really you don't want to have anything to do with -- i know there's a few of them in my family.
sigh.

[MrBenchley]

9. And yet Kerry's only 16 points down with THEM....

These folks should be eating up the drunk's campaign with a spoon and have him up by thirty or forty points....and they don't.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Neocon Public Radio strikes again.

I'm so glad that I was just able to switch the station on my car radio from NPR to AAR. I don't think I'll ever look back, assuming AAR stays on the air here.

[Fovea]

11. Kerry could still overcome this deficit

Perhaps if we dressed him up as Gen. Franco, Fr. Savanirola or Benito M.

Why do we want the Sam Brownback voter? Why do we want
to have to bend our platform for the sake of this ever shrinking minority?

We should be working the Spanish speaking, the working non-voter, single women... Because if we can get them re-engaged (they were once) they would reshape American policy and priority away from pursueing a patronage/peonage culture (I call it the 'ownership society', because the proponents want to go back to owning humans like cattle) back to the era of FDR. Many of these voters think the Democratic Party abandoned them, and those that were stupid and hateful became social conservative Pugs, the majority stopped voting altogether.

We cant get the dixicrats back, and we don't want them. Let's go after a real natural constituency of the Dems, those at the bottom, struggling like hell.

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. My contact of NPR in past years

has been rather...limited. I just had always found it too boring. But in the last two or three years, desperate to listen to something besides "the conservative side" that dominates the airwaves here in Chicagoland, I would tune into NPR.

I have noticed a DEFINITE turn toward promoting right-wing. It's become prevalent in almost everything. Even the local PBS stations are getting so bad!

[peacetalksforall]

13. NPR anquishes me

I can no longer send them money because of their politics, but I listen to them too much because I am crazy about most of their employees. Their talents are amazing. They've brought me a lot of enjoyment.